Since 2009, the Stagetecture design blog has helped homeowners find decor, organization, do it yourself and family lifestyle solutions. What started as a resource to share ideas, has today become a well sought after destination for helping homeowners find all the needed inspiration to beautify and enjoy their homes.

In my first DIY post for Stagetecture, I explain step-by-step how to recreate this masterpiece for your own kitchen. It’s much easier than you may think. So go ahead and have a look; and while you are there, dig through the rest of Ronique’s site.

That isn’t the only mural Amanda has tackled. Look at this “amazingness” she airbrushed/painted in her son’s room….

If I were a boy…(If I were a boy? like I’m a platypus now.) If I were much, much younger, this would be my dream bedroom…the mural, the surfboards, that boat bed……. and especially that denim patchwork quilt. I would love that in my home right now. In fact, I’m going to make it a goal to make my own.

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There is a sea of bloggers out there in blog-land, but only a few that I can’t get enough of. One of my favorites has been kara paslay designs. Kara, and her equally talented husband Tim, can make brilliance shine out of the simple dust around them. Her creative “modern-bohemian” style simply blows me away. Now, most of you know that Creative is NOT a word I throw around very liberally; but in this case it’s the best adjective that I can muster. Each room in their house has more brilliantly steal-able ideas than the last. So when Kara was impressed with our humble home and wanted to feature it …we were both stunned. Her blog is a Non-Stop typhoon of creative ideas. See for yourself…….

And while you’re there, check out her post on The Cavender Diary….

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For those of you “not in the know”, Younghouselove.com is the blog that inspired us on our journey of blog-dom. John and Sherry have created a huge following online with posts about tackling all the remodeling, decorating, and daily maintance of thier 50 year old Richmond Virginia home. These barely-30 something’s have about 1 million visitors a month…we have a drastically smaller number than that……(whispers to myself) “drastically smaller”. Jamie was tracking our blog traffic the other night, and found it strange that several people were directed to our page from Young House Love. A little investigating showed us that Barbette had posted a link for Sherry to see our den and the inspiration we gave her with our Ikea bookcases turned console….Naturally, I commented, and Sherry back…

In the grand scheme of things…this is soooo small. It’s not like they did a feature article on us , a house crash, or even showed a single thumbnail…..And some day we will look back at this with embarrassment of how flattered I am.

But every little step counts…..and just a refference to us, on a popular site like they have……….. is

H. U. G. E.

Here is the string of comments from the Young House Love post….

My comment was number 258 on that post….I can’t believe that Sherry , the mother of a toddler, was sitting there at a quarter till 1 in the morning, with a kitchen full of newly laid penny tile waiting to be grouted…..took the time to send me a reply….

It’s one thing to remodel a house …and a different animal altogether to document the process online. How many times have we both been elbow deep in primer, stain, fiberglass insulation, popcorn ceiling dust…and I yelp, “Stop…I need to take a picture”? We are great with tiling, and paint, and power tools, and wiring…not so great with writing text, or editing pictures….or even figuring out how WordPress works……just last week, I learned how to link text to other pages….

We wonder if anyone even looks at this blog? Or just our Mothers?

Artie at Color Outside the Lines looked, he liked what he saw……and better yet, he thought he would share us with his followers. Since 2008, Artie’s brilliant blog has documented his ideas of unique inspiration, design and decoration. His photographs are nothing short of inspiring. Please check out his article on us and the Cavender Diary. While you are there be sure to cruise the rest of his site…He has impeccable taste, after all, he picked us ……